people Movers and risers
The 55-strong South Coast office of Smith & Williamson, the accountancy, investment management and tax group, has promoted Andrew Edmonds to managing partner. Edmonds takes over from Richard Green who will continue to be an audit partner at the firm. He joined as a graduate trainee from Southampton University in 1994, and was promoted to head of assurance and business services in Southampton in 2011.
Regional law firm Paris Smith LLP has appointed four solicitors: Greig Richards (centre right), Arezou Rezai (centre left), Shelley White (far right) and Jackie Powell (far left), strengthening its corporate teams. Richards is a commercial property and planning solicitor dealing with a variety of commercial-property work within the portfolio team including commercial leases, option agreements and other property-related matters. Rezai has joined the company commercial team from another South Coast-based law firm, Warner Goodman LLP, where she undertook her training. Her main area of focus is commercial contracts, intellectual property and franchising. White specialises in commercial litigation and contentious insolvency work. Prior to joining Paris Smith, she was at Verisona Law for two years, undertaking similar work. Before that she did her training contract at Moore Blatch. Powell is a construction and property solicitor who has joined the commercial-property team following two years of training at city law firm Charles Russell Speechlys LLP.
Dorset-based cybersecurity company C3IA has appointed Darren Reho as principal consultant as the business takes off. Before entering the private sector, Reho spent 10 years in the Royal Air Force as a communications engineer specialising in information security and cryptography. He joins a company that is just one of 12 in the country certified by the Government’s new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). With a decade working for government agencies, C3IA has now brought its vast experience to the commercial world, assisting companies of all sizes.
Award-winning planning and design consultancy Terence O’Rourke has welcomed two new members of staff and promoted eight employees as it goes from strength to strength. Current employees Nigel Pugsley (centre right), John Trehy (centre left) and Jonathan Woolmer (not pictured) have been promoted to technical directors; Jo Baker (second left), Greg Blaquiere (not pictured), Alex Chapman(not pictured) and Tom Fowler (second right) are now associate directors; and, Isabelle Masser (not pictured) has become a senior architect. Terence O’Rourke also welcomed Hamzah Akhoon (left) and Dale Whitfield (right) to the company.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH COAST – DECEMBER 16/JANUARY 17
Leading business and financial adviser, Grant Thornton UK LLP Southampton, has welcomed five new starters to its team through its school-leaver and graduate programme. Keenan Pillay (far left), Beth Windibank (centre left), Rachel Brett (centre right) and Robin Welding (far right) have begun their careers at the firm in its five-year school leaver programme, while Charles Keenan (centre back) has entered the three-year graduate programme from the University of Bath. They arrive following success in a comprehensive interview process and join Emily Davis, Dan Shaw and Sabrina Webster who started their career with the firm earlier in the summer.
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